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1  Eternal Formats / Miscellaneous / Re: Cheap long.dec. on: May 09, 2005, 10:40:56 pm
All the expensive cards are basically the ones that are the keystones of type1 magic, there's really no effective way to budgetize the Power.
 
There are 2 things I think you can do, though neither is optimal they are changes that I think wont horribly screw up the deck:

i) cut a 'real' mox for Chrome Mox and save 1 piece of Power that way. Chrome Mox is nowhere near as good but it might be good enough if you're on a budget. Try it out & see how many times it works well enough & how many times it screws you because you don't have a card you're happy to imprint.

ii) cut Time Walk. You're playing storm combo, you win in 1 turn, while Time Walk is great early like on turn1 to cantrip & give you an extra land drop to set yourself up, it's no good to draw/Desire up when you're halfway through your storm count and going for the kill. This is probably the least important Power card in this deck. Replace it with a cheap cantrip (Sleight of Hand, Peek), cheap card drawer (Night's Whisper, to steal an idea from Meandeck Tendrils) or bounce spell to give yourself an out against Chalice/3sphere (Chain of Vapor, Hurkyl's Recall).
2  Vintage Community Discussion / Casual Forum / [Deck] Easter Tendrils on: June 24, 2004, 01:19:31 am
The Devour in Shadow in the 'board should probably be a Terminate if you want something targeted. Colour should rarely be a problem either way, although BB for Devour after BB for Death Wish could be a little tougher than the BR that can come straight out of a Shadowblood Egg.

Given this is coming off a Death Wish I also think the lifeloss could be relevant; especially when these aren't the only pain the deck is causing itself (NB: Wish drops you to 10 max so you can *never* kill a'Naught w/ a Wished Devour)
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